Pierre Labastie wrote: > Hi, > > During a jhalfs run of LFS 7.4, I has my attention caught by an unusual > duration of the util-linux build. I waited one more hour, then tried to > investigate (whithout interrupting the build). Looking at the logs > and the test logs, the tests had hanged at "script: race conditions".
s/hanged/hung/ > A 'ps aux | grep script' command returned: > 99 2580 0.0 0.0 9696 1532 ? S 15:15 0:00 /bin/bash > /sources/util-linux-2.23.2/tests/ts/script/race > --srcdir=/sources/util-linux-2.23.2 --builddir=/sources/util-linux-2.23.2 > 99 2624 0.0 0.0 9828 808 ? S 15:15 0:00 /bin/bash > /sources/util-linux-2.23.2/tests/ts/script/race > --srcdir=/sources/util-linux-2.23.2 --builddir=/sources/util-linux-2.23.2 > 99 4903 0.0 0.0 8360 688 ? S 15:15 0:00 > /sources/util-linux-2.23.2/script -q -c printf 'Bingo\n' > /sources/util-linux-2.23.2/tests/output/script/race-bingo > 99 4904 0.0 0.0 8368 340 ? S 15:15 0:00 > /sources/util-linux-2.23.2/script -q -c printf 'Bingo\n' > /sources/util-linux-2.23.2/tests/output/script/race-bingo > > I killed the second (PID 4904) 'script' process, and the build > went to completion almost immediately. > > Amazingly, the test log says: > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > All 113 tests PASSED > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Actually, looking at tests/run.sh, I cannot understand how it is that two > '/sources/util-linux-2.23.2/tests/ts/script/race' processes have been > launched. > OTH, each 'race' script launches 1000 'script' processes, so it is normal to > have more. > > But it seems that the race condition test has failed in this case... > Well, I guess it is a race condition test, according to the name of the > script ;-) > > Do not know if it is something to worry about, but thought I should share I certainly haven't seen this, but it might be worth a question to the util-linux mailing list: http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html It's the last list. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
